| romance is blue |
[Oct. 14th, 2009|08:31 pm] |
On a whim, I decided to clean out my old Documents folder, from way back.
Damn. It's like a horrible, awkward time capsule. Of horribleness. On the plus side, though, I did find a to-do list from 2004. A good reminder that, all things considered, it's been an absolutely wonderful past five years. ^_^
Another bit that I found that brought a smile to my face - one of my favorite pseudonyms from way back, Lucien Ambrose, has a lot of wonderful anagrams:
( OMNIBUS CEREAL ) |
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| All of Gaia's glades are killing grounds, and we all were born to die. |
[Jul. 23rd, 2009|03:18 pm] |
Which reminds me of one of Max's predecessors in office, Cat Zagnut, whose favorite piece of music was Orff's Carmina Burana.
John Herrera of the famous High Speed Triumph Research Laboratory, Myersville, Maryland, sent this snap of Felix Holstein performing his moving Dance to Spring.
(...cleaning out old saved emails today, and the above (subject included) remains the best piece of Spam I've ever received, even beating out prosperous sammich. What's worse is Google turns up results for some of it. It clarifies, but not enough. I know the what, but not the how or the why). |
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| Porkcore |
[Dec. 17th, 2008|10:41 am] |
If anything's porkcore, I would have to guess a tattooed pig would count...
(via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) riotclitshave).
Information on the artist can be found here. |
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| yep. |
[Nov. 4th, 2008|10:56 pm] |
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| cute break |
[Nov. 4th, 2008|09:09 am] |
h/t danielmc
1. Stop talking about politics for a moment or two.
2. Post a reasonably-sized picture in your LJ, NOT under a cut tag, of something pleasant, such as an adorable kitten, or a fluffy white cloud, or a bottle of booze. Something that has NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS.
3. Include these instructions, and share the love.
Awwwwwwwwww. Though that hedgehog video (YouTube) from yesterday was pretty damn adorable.
More cute hop-hops here. |
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| Well dang |
[Oct. 7th, 2008|08:52 pm] |
Election projections by fivethirtyeight.com, who brings teh Math.
Incidentally, Indiana is very narrowly projected for Obama via 538, as of tonight, whereas most other sites have us projected as a statistical tie, or very narrowly for McCain. This, I believe, is the most favorable projection for Obama so far; interesting to see how tonight's debate influences polling numbers.
/stats geek |
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| One of my favorites |
[Sep. 4th, 2008|08:39 am] |
via the Discordian E-Jing-a-Ling thing, of course.
Suppose I'm due for an update post; kinda difficult to parse everything into easily-digestible written output, though. Though maybe easily-digestible isn't necessary or even preferable. Hee. I am the roughage in your information diet. =p
Anyway, update soonish; I just wanted to share the bit above as one of my favorite results in the aforementioned Erisian I-Ching thing.
To abuse the metaphor presented above: maybe it's a cakewalk right now, maybe you're up against a mini-boss at the moment. Some folks are training, some are buying and selling. Some are grinding, and some are just trying to survive. Whatever you happen to do, though, do it with passion and conviction. (Working on that, myself). And keep yo' head up. ;) |
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| Strangers with comics |
[Aug. 25th, 2008|02:02 pm] |
So I was reading Willow's LJ post (specifically the bit about Death Race) the other day, thinking I had the perfect comic to post as a response. Alas! I could not find it. So I emailed the artist this morning, one beatonna, and lo and behold! I have the comic in question within the day:
( cut for space and awesome ) |
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| enabling |
[Aug. 18th, 2008|11:11 am] |
Ah, I have enjoyed being a goofball in Seattle with my favorite folks this weekend. Many thanks to Libby, Willow and Nathan for their hospitality. There's been Borg and bacon and Burnout...sure makes me feel at home. :D
However. All good things must come to an end...I head back tomorrow morning. And I have a favor to ask. We theoretically get into Indy at 6:10pm...there's a shuttle that leaves at 6:40 for B-Town, but between potential delays and grabbing luggage, not certain I'd make that. Next one would leave at 8:40. And I'd rather give one of you guys the $25 anyway.
So...if anyone's around, and would care to pick a Matt up, I will be full of love and hugs and gas money. But, if not, no worries. I would not be a stranded Matt. Simply a home-slightly-later Matt. ^_^ |
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| Old-timey Baconpunk |
[Aug. 12th, 2008|11:44 am] |
Pretty nice day yesterday. Around the end of a fairly pleasant work afternoon, rhiannon76 messages me rather excitedly: "I just found a song about bacon:", followed, of course, by the link.
OMG old-timey baconpunk. Even more so after a quick Google search turned up the lyrics. I've not yet worked my midi-fu to get the tune on the previous page going, but wow. Vintage baconpunk!
I like (no snark; genuine like) how I've become sort of a hub or nexus for bacon-related events and news. Just yay. :D |
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| SNGNTS: Saturday Night Game Night (at The Spoon)! |
[Aug. 6th, 2008|10:25 am] |
Yep, about time for another Game Night.
Runcible Spoon
7:30pm - boredom
Saturday, August 9th
Apples to Apples, Balderdash and cards will definitely be there. Possibly more. As always, feel free to bring a game to teach / share. Good food, good friends, fun games. Yes. |
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| promised updates |
[Jul. 6th, 2008|01:38 pm] |
It's actually been somewhat difficult to sit down and try to write an update post; not for want of desire to update, not for any unpleasantness. I suppose it's just: things proceed apace. There's not that much to say. Except there is, except I never feel like it's all that relevant unless someone asks. Where to begin?
Work has been mercifully quiet of late, which has allowed me to catch up on a lot of end-of-year projects. Speaking of which, the end-of-year, "you get it whether your a fuckup or our star staff member" raise kicked in on the 1st. Yay!
Actually read one of those "volunteer for a Psych Dept. study" flyers you (well, I) see everywhere. Lo and behold, I was eligible, and it sounded like fun (and, um, SCIENCE), so I'm currently in the middle of a six-day memory game study. They had me do some memory tests, one very akin to Simon, others involving strings of numbers or words, etc. on a touchscreen, then more the next day, etc. The Simon bit was ok, and apparently I impressed the tester with remembering the strings of numbers spoken through headphones test.
The delightfully creepy bit was one test the first day, where you have to listen to sentences spoken by a distorted computerized voice, and write down the last word in each sentence. They mention beforehand that some sentences will make sense, while some won't. So, for instance, hearing a garbled "Instead of a fence, plant a hedge" is fairly easy to make out, whereas "Brave china, consider the worm", while syntactically correct, is an odd thing to hear a creepy computer voice say. I wish I could remember more of them. I'm almost sure it swore a couple of times...
I have just sneezed carrots all over the monitor. I scroll down, and discover that I did not find all the bits at first pass.
Home life is ok, if a little (ok, remarkably) dull. This is why I am glad it is summer; it is always a good time to go out for a walk. Thoroughly enjoyable, and quite good for you, to boot. Been feeling generally better / healthier too, doubtless at least in part to all the walking. Getting a little creative energy back, which is good.
I miss people, lots. Saving up vacation time for trips, though. |
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